15 Bible Verses about Foolish People
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I have become a fool: you did compel me. For I ought to be commended by you: for I am not inferior to the very chief of the apostles, if indeed I am nothing.
Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect in the flesh?
For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;
Let no one deceive himself. If any one seems to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
I would that you bear with me a little in my folly: yes indeed you do bear with me.
Again I say, Let no one consider me to be a fool; but if not, receive me as a fool, in order that I may indeed glory some little.
What I say, I am not saying according to the Lord, but as it were in folly, in this confidence of glorying.
And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out.
I speak according to disparagement, as that we are weak; but in whatsoever any one is bold, (I speak it in folly,) I am bold also.
For if I shall wish to glory, I will not be a fool; for I speak the truth: but I fear, lest some one may consider with reference to me above what he sees me, or hears from me.
But I say, Whether does not Israel know? Moses first says, I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, and with a nation void of understanding I will anger you.
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- Foolish (271 instances)